I'm gladly here to show you my german equatorial mount homemade, totaly motorized and controlled by computer with PicGoTo system. It was necessary two years for me to construct it, after a long time on project's table and some prototypes, finally, I was able to finish it.

I believe this mount may be more robust than a EQ-5, at least, was projected to be. Here in pictures, it is supporting a refractor with Jaerger's objective (83mm F/12) constructed by me too. But, it will work with a newtonian reflector 6" f/5 and a refractor 3.5" F/5.5 for auto guiding.

Here, in Brazil, this wood is known as "angico vermelho", but its scientific name is Anadenanthera macrocarpa, it has high density and resistance. It's a little hard to work with it, due its hardness, but it gives great results.

Here is a new picture, this shows some details of worm gear, gearing system and its step motor. In the black enclosure there is one step motor with a 31:1 reductor; this spring pushes the gear against a disc fixed on polar axis producing the correct friction between them to move the axis and protect the gear. With this system, I don't need to lock/unlock nothing when I need to do any manual adjustment.